"Embuggerance" is my favourite word for a large-scale construction project on a road that cannot be avoided. For years before we left Ottawa, every journey across town involved avoiding street closures and gigantic construction sites related to the light rail system the city started building at least three generations later than it should have. Likewise, the section of Highway 401 at Kitchener-Waterloo has been under construction since the spring of 2017, by my watch, and isn't finished yet. This matters to us because any journey that takes us east of Kitchener -- to Toronto, say, or Hamilton or even flipping Guelph -- involves the 401 for at least 20 km, and the only place to get on the damnable 401 is right in the middle of the embuggerance.

Then the provincial Ministry of Transport started a drainage project on Highway 7, the primary truck route between Kitchener and Stratford, so the big rigs are backed up three concessions and the locals are blasting through farm country to do big-city errands like going to the doctor and such.

But the current embuggerance, the one that's keeping us all at home and seething, means that we're not sitting in a traffic jam or risking our lives to slide in between two 18-wheelers doing 120 kph in the middle of a construction site == that embuggerance means that all the other embuggerances will last at least a year longer than originally planned.

Bugger.